What are the three principal segments of the Windows Azure platform?

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Compute, Storage, and Fabric are the three main elements of Windows Azure.

1. Windows Azure Compute Windows Azure provides a code that the hosting environment may control. It provides the benefit of computation through components. Three types of roles are supported by Windows Azure:

• IIS7 maintains web roles, which are used for web application programming.

• Worker roles are used to handle the foundations of web roles.

• Virtual machine (VM) roles are used to easily migrate Windows Server programs to Windows Azure.

2. Windows Azure Storage It provides four different kinds of storage services:

• Web components and worker roles have queued for telling each other.

• Tables are used to store structural data.

• BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) are used to store contents, records, and large amounts of data.

• To mount a page BLOB, use Windows Azure Drives (VHD). BLOBs can be used to transmit and download these files.

3. Windows Azure AppFabric AppFabric offers five different services:

• Service bus

• Access

• Caching

• Integration

• Composite